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...Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leader of the Labor Party, takes a softer line. Dublin, he says, should patiently assure Ulster's Protestants that "we're not going to try to take you over against your will. Let's talk about unification only when you're ready...
STATES OF IRELAND by CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN 336 pages. Pantheon...
...Conor Cruise O'Brien continues to inform and dismay. He is an Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing outwardly altruistic policies that are, in his view, really selfish, cynical and exploitative...
...probably bores the world. It certainly exasperates the British. Senator Edward Kennedy notwithstanding, there is no imperial nostalgia left in England for this patch of Ireland-most Britons wish it would simply go away. So, too. do many Southern Irish. As a Dublin voter once said to Irish Politician Conor Cruise O'Brien: "Northern Ireland! I wish someone would saw that place...
...proposals themselves are reasonable enough. The question is whether they come too late to save the two Irelands from what Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien describes as the threat of "a common ruin, a sort of unity in the grave." The prospects are not encouraging. Even during a week of what these days is relative calm in Ulster, eight men were killed, 42 were injured and 28 bombs exploded...